Here are five lawsuits covered by Becker's in 2023 that involve ASCs:
1. Last year, an Iowa family filed a lawsuit against Iowa City-based ASC ENT Medical Services and one of its physicians after their 2-year-old son died following a routine procedure. The couple has now added the state of Iowa as a third defendant in the case.
2. The owner and president of the Virginia Surgical Center in Virginia Beach is facing charges for performing invasive surgeries without a license.
3. Four New Jersey ASCs have filed a lawsuit against a Service Employees International Union benefit fund alleging underpayment for nearly two dozen procedures performed on fund participant.
4. Hooman Melamed, MD, a California-based spine surgeon, filed a lawsuit against Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based Diagnostic and Interventional Surgical Center, where he previously was an owner, and HOI ASC Holdings.
5. Coast Surgery Center in Huntington Beach, Calif., is suing several major insurance providers for alleged "illegal, coercive, unfair, fraudulent practices, bad faith and deceptive advertisements."